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	The Abduction of Sita • R. K. Narayan • LITERATURE • Narayan's version of the Hindu epic of the struggle of Rama (with the help of the brave moneky Hanuman) to get the Princess Sita back from the evil lord Ravana. (IDA335, $8.95)
	The Adventures of Amir Hamza • Musharraf Ali Farooqi • LITERATURE • A deft new translation of the rip-roaring tales of the storied life and fabulous exploits of the Prophet Mohammed's uncle Hamza and his heroic encounters with emperors, merchants, viziers, courtesans, warriors and magical beings. (IDA391, $25.00)
	Adventures With the Buddha, A Buddhism Reader • Jeffery Paine • RELIGION • Paine chooses nine influential 19th and 20th century western adventurers and their travels in China, Tibet, Nepal and India for this riveting tale of religion, adventure and enlightenment. (REL12, $16.95)
	Age of Shiva • Manil Suri • LITERATURE • (IDA393, $14.95)
	The Ajanta Caves, Ancient Paintings of Buddhist India • Benoy Behl • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A beautifully photographed overview of the ancient murals and paintings of the life of Buddha carved into a hillside in western India. (IDA316, $34.95)
	Along the Ganges • Ilija Trojanow • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • In this colorful travelogue, Trojanow follows the Ganges from its source in the Himalayas to the cities that it feeds, using the holy river as a means to ponder Hinduism, culture, ecology and the tension between ancient and modern India. (IDA294, $19.95)
	Ancient Futures, Learning from Ladakh • Dalai Lama • Peter Matthiessen • Helena Norberg-Hodge • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Norberg-Hodge documents her community work and changes from traditional ways of life; she has lived and worked in Ladakh since 1975. (HML24, $16.95)
	An Area of Darkness • V.S. Naipaul • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A reflective, personal account of Naipaul's travels in India in 1962 -- a portrait of a time and place and searing, honest chronicle of the country during transition. (IDA13, $14.95)
	The Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent • J.C. Harle • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A scholarly survey of the art and architecture of not only India but also of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. (IDA60, $40.00)
	The Art of the Imperial Cholas • Vidya Dehijia • ART & ARCHITECTURE • (IDA104, $41.50)
	The Asia Book • China Williams • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Covering every country in Asia and the Middle East, this swoon-worthy collection offers pages of full-color photographs and profiles, shedding light on the peoples and cultures of each nation. (ASA64, $40.00)
	The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian • Nirad C. Chaudhuri • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • One of the great works of modern Indian literature, reissued in 2001. It's at once the story of Chaudhuri's youth in rural Bengal and Calcutta and the story of modern India's origins; a masterpiece steeped in time and place. (IDA196, $19.95)
	The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor • Zahiruddin Babur Shah • Salman Rushdie • Wheeler M. Thackson • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • The candid memoir of the first Moghul emperor of India (universally known as Babur), descended from Tamerlane. (CAS149, $17.95)
	Banaras • Diana L. Eck • HISTORY • CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE • This history of the holiest and oldest of Indian cities, the home of Shiva, encompasses many millennia of Buddhist and especially Hindu practices along the Ganges. (IDA211, $29.50)
	Baumgartner's Bombay • Anita Desai • LITERATURE • The tale of Hugo Baumgartner, a Jewish businessman who flees to India to escape persecution. (IDA245, $13.95)
	Beneath a Marble Sky, A Love Story • John Shors • LITERATURE • Built to mourn the tragic death of the emperor's wife, the Taj Mahal is at the center of this murderous, fantastical and dazzling tale, told from the point of view of daughter Princess Jaharana. (IDA301, $14.00)
	Bhubaneswar: From a Temple Town to a Capital City • Ravi Kalia • HISTORY • A scholarly analysis of the building of the new capital of the Indian state of Orissa. (IDA135, $45.00)
	The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives, An Illustrated Guide to Their Evolution and Natural History • Alan Turner • Mauricio Anton • NATURAL HISTORY • A thoroughly researched guide to modern felines and their ancestors. (BST50, $26.95)
	Blue Guide Southern India • George Michell • GUIDEBOOK • The usual comprehensive Blue Guide treatment of the art and culture of South India, with 90 maps and site plans. (IDA94, $25.95)
	Born Into Brothels • Zana Briski • Children of Calcutta • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A companion to the award-winning documentary of the same name, this charming book displays the beautiful photography of eight children growing up in Calcutta's red light district. (IDA269, $35.00)
	Bradt Bangladesh • Mikey Leung • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive guide in the growing series by Bradt, noteworthy for its focus on culture, nature and responsible travel. The author includes sights and activities throughout the country. (IDA578, $25.99)
	A Brief History of India • Judith E. Walsh • HISTORY • A Brief History of India offers an accessible, reliable introduction to this vast nation admired for its spiritual traditions, its peaceful struggle for independence led by Mahatma Gandhi, and its vibrant culture. (IDA394, $19.95)
	Buddha • Karen Armstrong • RELIGION • A concise, thought-provoking biography of the Buddha in the Penguin Lives series, written by one of the foremost experts on world religions. (REL09, $14.00)
	Buddha or Bust: In Search of Truth, Meaning, Happiness, and the Man Who Found Them All • Perry Garfinkel • RELIGION • A spiritual travelogue that scours the globe for the both the roots and world-wide extensions of Buddhism. (REL30, $13.95)
	Buddhism, A Concise Introduction • Huston Smith • Philip Novak • RELIGION • A brief yet illuminating overview, discussing Theravada and other South Asian traditions in the first half and then Western traditions in the second. (ASA41, $12.95)
	Calcutta Map • Bharat Graphics • A folded map of Calcutta, shown at a scale of 1:85,000. (IDA155, $6.95)
	The Camphor Flame, Popular Hinduism and Society in India • C.J. Fuller • RELIGION • A comprehensive study of contemporary Hinduism and Indian society. (IDA90, $24.95)
	Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age • Susan Bayly • HISTORY • This volume explores the emergence of ideas and practices that gave rise to the so-called "caste-society." (IDA553, $43.00)
	The Child and the State in India • Myron Weiner • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A thought-provoking no-nonsense evaluation of education and child labor in India. (IDA40, $30.95)
	City of Joy • Dominique La Pierre • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • An epic of love, heroism, and hope set among the dispossessed, and those who have sacrificed all to help them, in the slums of Calcutta. (IDA25, $7.99)
	The Clash Within, Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future • Martha C. Nussbaum • HISTORY • (IDA399, $29.95)
	The Complete Taj Mahal • Ebba Koch • ART & ARCHITECTURE • Ebba Koch, an expert on Mughal architecture, is the only scholar who has been allowed to take measurements of the Taj Mahal. This is her impressive academic and photographic tribute to the magnificent structure. (IDA332, $75.00)
	A Concise History of Modern India • Barbara Daly Metcalf • Thomas Metcalf • HISTORY • This brief history, organized chronologically, weaves together the political, social, economic and cultural history of India from the sultans, mughals, and pre-colonial Indian society through the end of the 20th century. Updated with a new chapter on the 1990s and an epilogue that includes the Congress victory of 2004 and the rise of India's high-tech industry. (IDA378, $27.99)
	Conflict Unending • Sumit Ganguly • HISTORY • An in-depth study of the turbulent relationship between India and Pakistan since independence in 1947, with a focus on Kashmir. (IDA223, $29.00)
	Cracking India, a Novel • Bapsi Sidhwa • R.W. Scholes • LITERATURE • The observant tale of an Indian girl in Lahore from ages four to eight. (IDA229, $15.95)
	Culture Shock! India • Gitanjali Susan Kolanad • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A lively introduction to modern Indian culture and manners. (IDA141, $17.99)
	The Customs of the Kingdoms of India • Marco Polo • LITERATURE • These pages from Marco Polo's Travels focus on his extravagant recollection of the far-flung kingdoms of the Indian Ocean. (IDA370, $10.00)
	The Dancing Girl • Hasan Shah • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The realistically rendered tale of love for a dancing girl who entertained the British Army in colonial India, originally written in 1790. (IDA61, $9.95)
	Darsan, Seeing the Divine Image in India • Diana L. Eck • ART & ARCHITECTURE • Tremendously useful for the traveler, this rigorous guide explains the significance and meaning of Hindu temples, festivals and ritual. Darsan, which translates as "seeing", reveals religious expression in India. (IDA75, $25.00)
	Daughter of the Ganges, The Story of One Girl's Adoption and her Return Journey to India • Asha Miro • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • (IDA299, $24.00)
	The Day of the Scorpion • Paul Scott • LITERATURE • Volume two of Scott's rousing, psychologically complex Raj Quartet. (IDA321, $20.00)
	A Dead Hand, A Crime in Calcutta • Paul Theroux • MYSTERY • The prolific Theroux is back with a chilling murder mystery set in Calcutta in which he displays his trademark wit and flare for atmosphere and sense of place. (IDA573, $26.00)
	The Death of Vishnu, A Novel • Manil Suri • LITERATURE • A vibrant, richly drawn debut novel, set in a colorful apartment house in the author's native Bombay. (IDA197, $14.95)
	Deep River • Shusaku Endo • LITERATURE • (JPN159, $14.95)
	Delhi Map • Bharat Graphics • (IDA150, $6.95)
	Dharma's Daughters: Contemporary Indian Women and Hindu Culture • Sara Mitter • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • An insightful, many-layered social history of women in the author's adoptive India. (IDA38, $22.95)
	A Division of Spoils • Paul Scott • LITERATURE • The final volume in Scott's rousing, psychologically complex Raj Quartet. (IDA323, $20.00)
	Eastern India Map • Nelles • A detailed regional map of eastern India, from just east of Delhi through all of Nepal, at a scale of 1:1,500,000. (IDA123, $10.95)
	Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia • Elizabeth Gilbert • LITERATURE • Gilbert chronicles in luminous prose a year-long odyssey not just to escape from an ugly divorce but also to discover the world and herself. The book, like her quest, is in three parts: Rome (eat), Mumbai (pray) and Bali (where she falls in love). (TVL107, $15.00)
	Eating India, An Odyssey into the Food and Culture of the Land of Spices • Chitrita Banerji • FOOD • Award-winning food writer and Bengali food expert Banerjii takes readers on a marvelous journey through the traditions, origins and ingredients of Indian cuisine. (IDA375, $24.95)
	The Elephanta Suite • Paul Theroux • LITERATURE • In each of these interconnected novellas, an unwitting visitor to India is transformed by the experience in unexpected ways. (IDA382, $14.95)
	The Empire of the Great Mughals: History, Art and Culture • Annemarie Schimmel • HISTORY • In this richly illustrated cultural history, Schimmel sketches daily life in the Mughal Court (1526-1707) and its impact on art, culture and religion. (IDA325, $29.95)
	The Enchantress of Florence • Salman Rushdie • LITERATURE • Rushdie conjures life in Renaissance Florence and the Mughal Empire with humor and vivid detail in this bawdy, improbable tale. (ITL948, $14.00)
	Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras • Diana L. Eck • RELIGION • With its wide geographic and spiritual scope, and combination of the personal and scholarly, this book is a fascinating introduction to religion, and the author. (IDA78, $20.00)
	The End of a Trail, The Cheetah in India • Divyabhanusinh Chavda • NATURAL HISTORY • A historical study of the cheetah in India, where it is now extinct. (IDA140, $75.00)
	Engaging India, Diplomacy Democracy And the Bomb • Strobe Talbott • HISTORY • This absorbing political memoir goes behind the scenes of the lengthy negotiations between the US and India in the wake of India's development of a nuclear bomb. Talbott, the former Deputy Secretary of State, was President Clinton's go-to man for the diplomatic procedings. (IDA387, $20.95)
	Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life, Hindus and Muslims in India • Ashutosh Varshney • HISTORY • An assessment of current relationships between Hindus and Muslims in India. (IDA235, $19.95)
	Eyewitness Guide India • Eyewitness Guides • GUIDEBOOK • A handsome, beautifully illustrated guide to India. It features color photographs, history and plenty of background information. (IDA265, $30.00)
	Family Matters • Rohinton Mistry • LITERATURE • An aging professor comes to live with his daughter, her husband and their two children in a cramped Bombay apartment in Mistry's moving, and often comic, tale. (IDA214, $15.95)
	The Far Pavilions • M. M. Kaye • LITERATURE • A tale of love, adventure and war set during the British Raj in India, culimating with the Indian Mutiny and the Second Afghan War. (IDA195, $19.95)
	Fasting, Feasting • Anita Desai • LITERATURE • A well-constructed and deeply disturbing story of a sister and brother in a middle-class Indian family. Dull Uma is constrained to live at home and totally controlled by her parents, whereas bright Arun is helped to achieve academically and goes abroad to America. An eye-opening view into cultural differences and the Indian experience at home and abroad. (IDA172, $13.95)
	Father India, Westerners Under the Spell of an Ancient Culture • Jeffrey Paine • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A very interesting book that explores the fascination that India has exerted on writers, politicians and other vistors. (IDA165, $14.95)
	The Feast of Roses • Indu Sundaresan • LITERATURE • Sundaresan continues the gripping tale of the ever more powerful Princess Jahanara in this lushly detailed sequel to The Twentieth Wife. (IDA306, $15.00)
	A Field Guide to the Birds of the Indian Subcontinent • Krys Kazmierczak • Ber Van Perlo • FIELD GUIDE • A compact field guide to 1,300 species. (FG40, $50.00)
	First Under Heaven, The Art of Asia • Hali Publications • ART & ARCHITECTURE • The fourth Hali Annual, a showcase of textiles and decorative arts throughout Asia (ASA19, $78.00)
	Flashman and the Mountain of Light • George MacDonald Fraser • LITERATURE • In this 9th installment in the rollicking, meticulously researched series the sardonic Flashman is off to the Punjab for more lechery, cowardice and aggrandizement in the service of Her Majesty. (IDA291, $15.00)
	Flashman in the Great Game • George MacDonald Fraser • LITERATURE • What caused the Sepoy Mutiny, a pivotal moment in the Raj? How about Harry Flashman, the reluctant, much-decorated coward, cad and womanizer at the center of George MacDonald Fraser's wildly entertaining, irreverent series of historical novels. (CAS120, $15.00)
	Fodor's Exploring India • Fiona Dunlop • GUIDEBOOK • With its many photographs, great introductory chapters and practical travel information, this book is an excellent overview of India and its attractions for visitors. (IDA365, $22.00)
	Fodor's India • Inc. Fodor's Travel Publications • GUIDEBOOK • A practical guide in the popular series, saturated with valuable information on accommodation, shopping, sights, and dining. (IDA388, $24.95)
	Folktales From India • A.K. Ramanujan • LITERATURE • A wonderful collection of tradition tales. (IDA288, $18.00)
	Footprint Goa Handbook • Annie Dare • GUIDEBOOK • A sturdy guide in the practical Footprint series with background information on the history and culture of Goa. (IDA266, $19.95)
	Footprint India Handbook • Annie Dare • David Stott • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive gudie to India with practical travel detail on where to go and what to do. (IDA138, $29.95)
	Footprint Northeast India • David Stott • GUIDEBOOK • Northeast India is a region off the usual tourist route, yet it contains some of the country's beautiful scenery, remarkable religious monuments and vibrant cultural centres. This guide takes you to the Orissan temples of Puri, Bhubaneswar and Konark, the interior of Bihar and Jharkhand, and the mighty peaks of the Himalaya to the north. (IDA539, $23.95)
	Footprint South India • Robert Bradnock • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive guide in the popular British series. (IDA237, $23.95)
	Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 • Christopher Bayly • Timothy Harper • HISTORY • A gripping history of Britains WWII campaigns in India, Burma and Malaysia by two Cambridge University historians. (ASA45, $29.95)
	The Foundations of Buddhism • Rupert Gethin • RELIGION • A lively, authoritative survey of the origins, common ideas and heritage of Buddhism. (REL21, $29.99)
	Freedom Song • Amit Chaudhuri • LITERATURE • This three-novella volume contains Chaudhuri's finest work to date -- in particular "A Strange and Sublime Address," his evocation of childhood in Calcutta. (IDA217, $14.00)
	Frommer's India • Pippa de Bruyn • Keith Bain • GUIDEBOOK • A practical guide to India with excellent coverage of attractions and travel details, as well as a foldout, full-color map. (IDA342, $24.99)
	Frommer's India • Pippa Debruyn • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive, practical guide to the region with excellent recommendations for hotels, restaurants and excursions. With two-color maps throughout. (IDA577, $24.99)
	Full Tilt, From Dublin to Delhi with a Bicycle • Dervla Murphy • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • The indomitable Dervla Murphy's first book, a captivating account of her solo journey across Europe to Iran, Afghanistan, and over the Himalayas to Pakistan and into India. (IDA324, $16.95)
	Funny Boy • Shyam Selvadurai • LITERATURE • Building a complex portrait through detail of family, society and place, this prize-winning novel is a gay coming of age story set in contemporary Sri Lanka. Splendidly written. (SRL01, $14.00)
	Gandhi • Catherine Clement • Ruth Sharman • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A pocket-size biography, jammed with illustrations. (IDA203, $12.95)
	Gandhi, 25th Anniversary Collector's Edition • Richard Attenborough • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Richard Attenborough's award-winning epic recounts the life and times of Mahatma Gandhi (Kingsley). (IDA402, $19.95)
	Gandhi, His Life and Message for the World • Louis Fischer • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A classic biography of Gandhi, still one of the most readable, lively, and interesting books on the subject. (IDA162, $7.99)
	Gandhi, Prisoner of Hope • Judith Brown • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A comprehensive study and ecellent biography of the complex life of India's most famous figure; Brown has interesting insights into Gandhi's political strategies and general persona. (IDA226, $44.00)
	Ganga, A Journey Down the Ganges River • Julian C. Hollick • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Hollick deftly weaves natural and social history in this anecdotal account of a journey from the Himalayan source of the Ganges to the sea. (IDA381, $25.95)
	The Ganges • Raghubir Singh • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • An engrossing collection of photographs from the renowned Indian photographer, following the river from its headwaters high in the Himalayas to its mouth at the Bay of Bengal. (IDA367, $29.95)
	Ganges • Jon Nicholson • LITERATURE • This mesmerizing photographic tribute chronicles the Ganges from the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal, surveying the river's deep-seated religious significance, its ecological role, and the varied peoples who inhabit its banks. (IDA541, $34.95)
	Geography of Religion: Where God Lives, Where Pilgrims Walk • Susan T. Hitchcock • John Esposito • Desmond Tutu • Mpho Tutu • RELIGION • A handsomely photgraphed tour of the five major world religions and the places that each one holds most sacred. (REL05, $24.00)
	The Glass Palace • Amitav Ghosh • LITERATURE • In this panoramic novel, full of tales and anecdote, Ghosh follows the lives and fortunes of Rajkumar and his family over three eventful generations in Burma, India and Malaysia. (IDA173, $15.00)
	Global Nomads, Techno and New Age as Transnational Countercultures in Ibiza (Spain) and Goa (India) • Anthony D'Andrea • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • The social life of mobile expatriates and the global countercultural circuit. (GEN532, $39.95)
	Govind Narayan's Mumbai • Govind Narayan • HISTORY • Narayan (1815-1865) describes Mumbai's daily life, its people and its institutions in this classic account of the city in the 19th century. (IDA532, $80.00)
	The Great Indian Novel • Shashi Tharoor • LITERATURE • In this widely acclaimed novel, Shashi Tharoor masterfully recasts the 2,000-year-old epic "The Mahabharata" with fictionalized -- but highly recognizable -- events and characters from 20th century Indian politics. Blending history and myth to chronicle the Indian struggle for freedom and independence, Tharoor directs his hilarious satire against not just the bumblings of the British Raj but also Indian foibles and failings. (IDA562, $14.95)
	The Guide • R. K. Narayan • LITERATURE • A comic look at the life of a rogue, set in Malgudi, a fictional town in southern India like many of Narayan's novels. Originally published in 1958. (IDA310, $15.00)
	H.M.S. Surprise • Patrick O'Brian • LITERATURE • The third in O'Brian's celebrated Aubrey/Maturin series finds Jack Aubrey in India. (IDA236, $14.95)
	Haunting Bombay • Shilpa Agarwal • LITERATURE • Agarwal's stunning debut set in Bombay in the 1960s. (IDA580, $24.00)
	Heat and Dust • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala • LITERATURE • This short novel, centered around an Anglo-Indian romance, tackles with precision issues of class, colonialism and propriety in 1920s India. (IDA239, $14.95)
	Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress • Jan Morris • HISTORY • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE • A wonderful portrait of early (pre-1897) British colonial rule in India, Central Asia, Africa and elsewhere. Morris weaves historical accounts, character studies, and much imagination into this readable, compelling tale. (IDA20, $38.95)
	Henri Cartier-Bresson in India • Henri Cartier-Bresson • ART & ARCHITECTURE • (IDA295, $29.95)
	Hindoo Holiday, An Indian Journal • J.R. Ackerly • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Ackerly traipses across India as the English tutor to a handsome and extravagantly homosexual maharajah in this comic, beautifully turned-out novel masquerading as a travelogue. (IDA115, $16.95)
	Hindu Art • T. Richard Blurton • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A beautifully large paperback of excellent quality, this book is a good introduction to the complexities of Indian painting, sculpture and sacred architecture. (IDA35, $35.00)
	Hinduism, A Cultural Perspective • David R. Kinsley • RELIGION • In this well-regarded overview of the Hindu religious traditions, a popular text, Kinsley effectively conveys the essence of the Hindu vision of reality. (IDA354, $64.00)
	Hinduism, A Very Short Introduction • Kim Knott • RELIGION • An introduction to the beliefs and practice of Hinduism, and a consideration of its influence in India and around the world. (IDA329, $11.95)
	The Hindus: An Alternative History • Wendy Doniger • RELIGION • In an engrossing blend of history and myth, the praised historian plots a new course for understanding one of the world's oldest major religions, exploring the relationship between recorded history and imaginary worlds. (REL56, $35.00)
	The Holder of the World • Bharati Mukherjee • LITERATURE • A daring novel of ideas, travel and history. Mukherjee interweaves the story of a modern American researcher with the travels of her 17th-century ancestor who roamed through Mughal India. (IDA190, $13.95)
	The Hollow Crown, Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom • Nicholas B. Dirks • HISTORY • A pioneering piece of ethnohistory, The Hollow Crown uses a variety of interdisciplinary means to reconstruct the sociocultural history of a warrior polity in south India between the fourteenth and the twentieth centuries (IDA556, $35.00)
	Holy Cow, An Indian Adventure • Sarah Macdonald • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • A memoir of two years spent in India from an Australian radio correspondent who is particularly attuned to the cultural riches and peculiarities of the country. (IDA297, $14.95)
	How to Change the World, Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas • David Bornstein • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • In this inspiring work, Bornstein profiles nine noteworthy social entrepreneurs who have worked for change and reform in areas around the world ranging from Bombay to Washington, D.C. Their stories are an engaging and encouraging read for those interested in international social reform. (GEN332, $30.00)
	Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard • Kiran Desai • LITERATURE • A paperback re-issue of the debut novel by the author of The Inheritance of Loss. It's the story of a poor, shiftless, rural man who attains unexpected renown as a holy man and unwittingly brings turmoil and chaos to his small town. (IDA576, $14.00)
	The Hungry Tide • Amitav Ghosh • LITERATURE • A powerful, moving novel by the author of Glass Palace and Dancing in Cambodia, set in the Sundarban Islands in the Bay of Bengal. (IDA258, $13.95)
	The Illustrated Kama Sutra, Ananga-Ranga, Perfumed Garden • Richard Francis Burton • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • An abridged edition of Richard Burton's original translation of the Kama Sutra (1883), Ananga-Ranga (1885) and The Perfumed Garden (1886). (IDA221, $24.95)
	Imagining India • Nandan Nilekani • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • The hugely successful Indian software entrepreneur analyzes India's role as a world economic giant. (IDA564, $29.95)
	Imperial Connections, India in the Indian Ocean Arena, 1860-1920 • Thomas R. Metcalf • HISTORY • Offers a broad-ranging view of the workings of the British Empire in the period when the India of the Raj stood at the center of a newly globalized system of trade, investment, and migration. (IDA551, $24.95)
	In Light of India • Octavio Paz • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Nobel laureate Octavio Paz, who served for five years served as Mexico's ambassador to India, contemplates Indian history, society, literature and art in his inimitable style. (IDA368, $15.00)
	In Praise of Krishna, Songs from the Bengali • Edwar Dimock • LITERATURE • A collection of lyrics celebrating the love of Radha for the god Krishna, translated in collaboration with the poet Denise Levertov. (IDA373, $18.00)
	In the Shadow of the Himalayas, A Photographic Record by John Claude White 1883-1908 • Kurt Meyer • Pamela Deuel Meyer • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A collection of 144 remarkable documentary photographs of Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal and Sikkim at the turn of the 20th century by John Claude White (1853-1918), the first British Political Officer to Sikkim. (HML71, $65.00)
	India After Gandhi, The History of the World's Largest Democracy • Ramachandra Guha • HISTORY • (IDA400, $34.95)
	India and South Asia, A Short History • David Ludden • HISTORY • Ideal for students of regional studies as well as for travelers and historians, this book offers much insight into the key economic, social, and political developments that have shaped both the individual countries of South Asia and the region as a whole. (ASA73, $24.95)
	India Briefing, A Transformative Fifty Years • Marshall Bouton • Philip Oldenburg • HISTORY • A primer on the political issues facing modern India. (IDA204, $38.95)
	India Exposed, The Subcontinent A-Z • Clive Limpkin • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Clive Limpkin's splendidly photographed travelogue, quirkily organized by theme, captures the culture and spirit of India. (IDA584, $29.95)
	India in Mind • Pankaj Mishra • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • For this wide-ranging anthology, novelist and essayist Pankaj Mishra offers 25 selections of poetry, letters, fiction and travel accounts by such luminaries as Twain, Orwell, and Chatwin, with a particular focus on how outsiders have viewed India. (IDA255, $14.00)
	India Modern, Traditional Forms and Contemporary Design • Herbert J.M. Ypma • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A history of modern Indian design and its origins. (IDA186, $29.95)
	India Modern, Traditional Forms and Contemporary Design (Pocket Edition) • Herbert J.M. Ypma • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A pocket-history of modern Indian design and its origins. (IDA187, $9.95)
	India North Map • Nelles • A regional map of northern India scaled at 1:1,500,000, with excellent topographic detail and insets of Delhi, Agra, Zanskar & Ladakh. (IDA124, $10.95)
	India Northeast Bangladesh Map • Nelles • This regional map (1:1,500,000) covers Arunchal Pradesh, Assam and adjoining Tibet, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Burma. (IDA98, $10.95)
	India Northeast Bangladesh Map • Nelles • This regional map (1:1,500,000) covers Arunchal Pradesh, Assam and adjoining Tibet, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Burma. (IDA98, $10.95)
	India South Map • Nelles • A colorful regional map of India south of Mumbai at a scale of 1:1,500,000. (IDA69, $10.95)
	India Unbound • Gurcharan Das • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • In this pleasant and readable narrative, acclaimed journalist and author Gurcharan Das weaves his personal story into the larger context of India's recent history, discussing at length the economic and political issues facing the nation. (IDA144, $15.95)
	India West Map • Nelles • A detailed regional map including Delhi, Agra, Jaipur and Rajasthan. Scaled at 1:1,500,000, with insets of Delhi and Mumbai. (IDA73, $11.95)
	India, A Concise History • Francis Watson • HISTORY • An illustrated history in the fine series from Thames & Hudson. (IDA139, $18.95)
	India, A History • John Keay • HISTORY • A sweeping history of India from early settlement in the Indus Valley around 2000 B.C through ancient civilizations, Hindu, Christian and Muslim traditions, Mughal pomp, colonial rule, independence and the heady challenges of modern democracy. (IDA175, $19.95)
	India, An Epic Journey • Michael Wood • HISTORY • The companion book to historian Michael Wood's BBC documentary. Mixing history with his personal travels, Wood creates a deeply engaging and informative portrait of India, supported with visuals and photographs on nearly every page. (IDA380, $35.00)
	India, Development and Participation • Jean Dreze • HISTORY • Sen and Dreze explore the role of public action in eliminating deprivation and expanding human freedoms in India. (IDA514, $50.00)
	India, Emerging Power • Stephen Philip Cohen • HISTORY • A critical assessment of India as a world power by a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Cohen looks especially at the relations between India and Pakistan and China, as well as the United States. (IDA263, $22.95)
	India, From Midnight to the Millennium • Shashi Tharoor • HISTORY • Tharoor tackles religious differences, his upbringing in the south of India, his own experiences as a "Non-resident Indian," and a great deal of history in this sweeping, narrative history of the last 50 years. (IDA106, $14.95)
	India, From Midnight To The Millennium and Beyond • Shashi Tharoor • HISTORY • A portait of contemporary India. (IDA515, $15.95)
	India: Kingdom of the Tiger • Bruce Neibaur • NATURAL HISTORY • This dazzling film of tigers in the wild and pioneering conservation efforts was filmed on location at Bhandhavgarh Tiger Reserve. (IDA248, $19.99)
	Indian Art • Vidya Dehejia • ART & ARCHITECTURE • COMING IN MAY • A beautifully illustrated, very readable history of Indian art and architecture. It considers the religious and intellectual contexts of three thousand years of Indian art, including the modern era. (IDA185, $24.95)
	Indian Balm, Travels Amongst Fakirs And Fire Warriors • Paul Hyland • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Hylands perceptive, witty account of travels along the Godavari in Andhra Pradesh. (IDA287, $18.95)
	The Indian Bride • Karin Fossum • MYSTERY • Another brilliantly conceived, dark novel from one of Europe's most successful crime writers. (IDA396, $23.00)
	Indian Embers • Lady Rosamund Lawrence • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • First published in 1949, this travelogue is a classic account of a journey through India. (IDA54, $22.95)
	Indian Subcontinent Map • Nelles • A map of all of India as well as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and parts of Tibet, China and Burma, at a scale of 1:4,500,000. (IDA271, $10.95)
	Indian Summer • Will Randall • LITERATURE • Will Randall thought teaching in an inner-London comprehensive was a tough job. But that was nothing compared to the next assignment: saving a slum school in the Indian city of Poona. Learning as much as he is teaches. (IDA366, $13.95)
	Indian Summer, The Secret History of the End of an Empire • Alex Von Tunzelmann • HISTORY • Von Tunzelmann sets her tale of well-born Dickie Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of India, his wife Edwina, the attentive Nehu and other personalities of the time against the dramatic backdrop of Indian independence. (IDA385, $18.00)
	Indian Textiles • John Gillow • ART & ARCHITECTURE • With an overview of customs and techniques and a region-by-region account of traditional textile production, this revised, sumptuously produced volume captures the allure of India's legendary weaving, embroidery and printing. (IDA543, $50.00)
	Indira • Katherine Frank • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A controversial biography of Indira Gandhi. (IDA199, $35.00)
	The Inheritance of Loss • Kiran Desai • LITERATURE • Alternating between a once grand household in northern India and the life of the cook's son in New York, this novel by the marvelous and wise Desai skewers the aspirations and reality of both worlds. (IDA303, $14.00)
	Insight Guide Sri Lanka • Insight Guides • GUIDEBOOK • An illustrated overview of Sri Lanka with essays on its attractions, history and culture complemented by many pictures and maps. (SRL02, $23.99)
	Interpreter of Maladies • Jhumpa Lahiri • LITERATURE • In these nine stories, Lahiri captures the experience of first-generation Indian-Americans as their marriages shift and fall apart, and their families are threatened by miscarriages, infidelity, and the trials of assimilation. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. (IDA243, $15.95)
	An Introduction to Hinduism • Gavin D. Flood • RELIGION • A comprehensive overview of the Hinduism, from the basic principles and tenets of the religion to modern variations and controversies. (IDA315, $27.99)
	Jaipur Nama, Tales from the Pink City • Giles Tillotson • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Three centuries of history in the city of Jaipur Nama are chronicled by diverse residents and visitors, presenting an energetic portrait of the passions and dramas of everything from the palaces to the people. (IDA339, $14.00)
	Jejuri, A Poem • Arun Kolatkar • Amit Chaudhuri • LITERATURE • Kolatkar's marvelous epic poem, which won the Commonwealth Prize in 1976, recounts a pilgrimage to Jejuri in his home state of Maharashtra. (IDA286, $12.95)
	Jewel in the Crown • Paul Scott • LITERATURE • The first book in Scott's addictive Raj Quartet, set in British India in 1942, is a rousing, psychologically complex tale of English colonial rule. (IDA66, $20.00)
	Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames: Women's Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope • Jael Silliman • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A scholarly yet sentimental account of the longstanding female Jewish community in Calcutta. (IDA244, $19.95)
	A Journey in Ladakh • Andrew Harvey • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • The vivid account of a 1981 journey by a young English poet in search of ancient Buddhist traditions in remote Ladakh. (HML15, $18.95)
	The Jungle Books • Rudyard Kipling • LITERATURE • Mowgli, an Indian boy adopted by wolves, learns the ways of the jungle as he grows up in the company of cobras, panthers, bears and tigers. Kipling set his adventures in what is now Kanha National Park. (IDA313, $4.95)
	Ka, Stories of the Mind and Gods of India • Roberto Calasso • Tim Parks • LITERATURE • A challenging collection of stories based on traditional Hindu myths. (IDA168, $16.00)
	Kali's Child, The Mystical and Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna • Jeffrey J. Kripal • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A scholarly analysis of the life and thought of a 19th century Bengali mystic and modern saint. (IDA112, $32.00)
	Karma Cola, Marketing the Mystical East • Gita Mehta • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A witty, often poignant satire on the exploitation of both Westerners and Indians through tourism. (IDA136, $13.95)
	Kim • Rudyard Kipling • LITERATURE • The enduring tale of Kimball O'Hara, an orphan boy who, through happenstance, travels the Grand Trunk Road with a Tibetan Lama. (IDA116, $27.99)
	Kite's Eye View India, Between Earth and Sky • Nicolas Chorier • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • These breathtaking low aerial images of India, its people, landscapes and cities, were taken ingeniously by attaching a camera to a kite. (IDA519, $49.95)
	Lagaan • Ashutosh Gowariker • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A delightful, Oscar-nominated musical about a cricket team in 19th century India. Gowariker's film is four straight hours of exuberant Bollywood style romance. (IDA558, $27.96)
	The Land of Naked People, Encounters with Stone Age Islanders • Madhusree Mukerjee • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Mukerjee reveals a fascinating world nearly gone in the Andamens -- a place where the Great Andamese, Onge, Jarawa, and Sentinelese peoples once lived in near isolation. (IDA525, $24.00)
	The Last Mughal, The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 • William Dalrymple • HISTORY • The riveting tale of the poet, mystic and Mughal Emperor Shah Zafar II and mid 19th century Delhi, culminating in the 1857 Indian Rebellion. (IDA350, $16.95)
	The Last Song of Dusk • Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi • LITERATURE • Set in 1920s Bombay, this magical debut tells the story of beautiful Anuradha, whose songs are spellbinding, but whose fate is troubled. (IDA563, $13.95)
	The Life of Hinduism • John Hawley • Vasudha Narayanan • RELIGION • A series of essays that present Hinduism as a vibrant and vital religion, with emphasis on the multifaceted world of Hindu worship and the identity issues of Hindus faced with globalization. (IDA374, $25.95)
	Little Buddha • Bernardo Bertolucci • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Bertolucci's luminescent film interweaves the story of a journey from Seattle to Bhutan with the life of Siddharta. (HML74, $14.99)
	Lives of Indian Images • Richard H. Davis • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An insightful study of how Indian religious images take on lives of their own. (IDA91, $37.50)
	Lonely Planet Bangladesh • Stuart Butler • GUIDEBOOK • A practical guide in the popular series with 40 sketch maps, a selection of color photographs and a 100-page introduction to the region. (ASA38, $26.99)
	Lonely Planet Goa • Bryn Thomas • GUIDEBOOK • A practical guide in the popular series. (IDA219, $19.99)
	Lonely Planet Goa & Mumbai • Lonely Planet • GUIDEBOOK • This comprehensive practical guide in the hallmark Lonely Planet style includes local and regional color maps, a section of photographs, and chapters on history, culture and attractions. (IDA582, $19.99)
	Lonely Planet Goa Beaches Encounter • Lonely Planet • GUIDEBOOK • With a section of not-to-missed highlights and a calendar of annual events, this lively pocket guide organized by neighborhood includes suggested side trips, along what to see and where to shop, eat, drink and play. With a double-sided pullout map. (IDA583, $12.99)
	Lonely Planet Hindi & Urdu Phrasebook • Richard Somers Delacy • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A handy phrasebook for Hindi and Urdu basics. (IDA82, $8.99)
	Lonely Planet India • Tony Wheeler • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive practical guide to India geared for independent travelers. (IDA44, $29.99)
	Lonely Planet Northeast India • Mark Elliott • Joseph Bindloss • Lindsay Brown • GUIDEBOOK • This guide covers easternmost India in the hallmark Lonely Planet style, covering Calcutta, Sikkim, West Bengal and Orissa along with the newly opened and little-visited northeastern states. (IDA518, $23.99)
	Lonely Planet South India • Lonely Planet • Lonely Planet Publications • GUIDEBOOK • This practical guide to South India features maps, a good overview of culture, history and nature and plenty of information on excursions, accommodations and sightseeing. (IDA188, $24.99)
	Lonely Planet Trekking in the Indian Himalaya • Garry Weare • GUIDEBOOK • This guide, now in its fifth edition, is great for both practical trail information and general historical and cultural background on the region. Filled throughout with maps and detailed descriptions of treks. (IDA241, $24.99)
	Love and Longing in Bombay • Vikram Chandra • LITERATURE • Five transfixing stories in five different genres, united in setting and authorship by the contemporary wizard of the human condition, Vikram Chandra. (IDA216, $19.99)
	Love Delhi • Fiona Caulfield • GUIDEBOOK • This beautifully made, affectionate guide, packaged in its own satchel of locally woven raw silk and printed on hand-made paper, captures the soul of the city, pointing with authority to neighborhoods, shops, markets, restaurants and attractions. (IDA403, $40.00)
	Love in a Different Climate, Men Who Have Sex with Men in India • Jeremy Seabrook • RELIGION • Sexual identify and politics in India. (IDA113, $25.00)
	Mahabharata • Peter Brook • RELIGION • OUT OF PRINT • Royal Shakespeare Company Peter Brook's stylized, mesmerizing dramatization of the great Hindu tale, starring an international cast. (IDA358, $39.99)
	Mahabhrata • William Buck • B. A. Van Nooten • LITERATURE • An introduction and retelling of one of the greatest Hindu epics. (IDA167, $22.95)
	Maharanis, A Family Saga of Four Queens • Lucy Moore • HISTORY • Moore captures the passion, complexities and power of four influential women in this family saga covering the history of India from 1911 to Independence. (IDA309, $16.00)
	Mahatma Gandhi and his Apostles • Ved Mehta • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A vivid examination of the life and work of Gandhi by novelist Ved Mehta. (IDA21, $30.00)
	Mahatma Gandhi, Nonviolent Power in Action • Dennis Dalton • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Featuring a new preface by the author, this book moves from the birth of Gandhi's method of nonviolent resistance in South Africa to an in-depth analysis of two of his signal triumphs: the civil disobedience movement of 1930 and his historic Calcutta fast of 1947. (IDA536, $27.00)
	The Majesty of Mughal Decoration, The Art and Architecture of Islamic India • George Michell • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An illustrated survey of the workmanship, materials, and techniques of Mughal art. (IDA594, $65.00)
	The Mango Season • Amulya Malladi • LITERATURE • A marvelously evocative novel of life in South India, in which the prodigal daughter returns home. The pleasure and importance of food in the novel (which includes recipes) underscores the tension between modern and traditional. (IDA257, $13.95)
	Mantles of Merit: Chin Textiles from Myanmar, India and Bangladesh • David Fraser • Barbara Fraser • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An abundantly illustrated study of the textiles of the Chin peoples of southern and eastern Asia. With more than 600 color illustrations. (ASA46, $60.00)
	The Marathas 1600-1818 • Stewart Gordon • HISTORY • Gordon presents the first comprehensive history of the Maratha polity, which was an important regional kingdom in the seventeenth century and the largest political entity of eighteenth century India. (IDA554, $45.00)
	Maximum City, Bombay Lost and Found • Suketu Mehta • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • The tale of the author who, after a 21-year sojourn in New York, returns to his native Bombay, "the biggest, fastest, richest city in India." (IDA252, $17.00)
	Media and the British Empire • Chandrika Kaul • HISTORY • A collection of scholary articles. (GBR680, $90.00)
	A Meeting by the River • Christopher Isherwood • LITERATURE • Two brothers meeting in India, one a bisexual capitalist and the other a Hindu monk. (IDA114, $16.95)
	Meeting God, Elements of Hindu Devotion • Thomas Moore • Stephen Huyler • RELIGION • A stunningly photographed introduction to the rituals and daily devotion of contemporary Hinduism in India. A companion to the traveling exhibition "Puja, Expressions of Hindu Devotion." (IDA132, $25.00)
	Miles from Nowhere, A Round the World Bicycle Adventure • Barbara Savage • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • The funny, poignant account of the husban-and-wife duo's 23,000-mile, 25-country, two-year bicycle odyssey. (BCY02, $18.95)
	Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy • Ayesha Jalal • Sugata Bose • HISTORY • This scholarly, brief history of India up to the 1990s is particularly good at its coverage of the post-Independence political landscape. It's a popular textbook, co-authored by a Pakistani and an Indian. (IDA192, $35.95)
	Monkfish Moon • Romesh Gunesekera • LITERATURE • These nine excellent short stories, all set in Sri Lanka, capture the spirit of the place. Gunesekera sketches myriad characters, all of whom wonder "what's happened?" as they deal with the reality of a nation embroiled in Tamil-Sinhala strife. (SRL03, $16.95)
	Monsoon Wedding • Naseeruddin Shah • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • When a middle class Delhi family arranges their daughter's marriage, hilarity and musical numbers ensue, in a pastiche of Hindi, English and Punjabi. (IDA559, $9.99)
	Moon Mumbai & Goa • Janhavi Acharekar • GUIDEBOOK • A great resource for the independent traveler, this guidebook features a good introduction to land, history and culture, as well as practical detail on getting around, where to go, and where to stay. With personality, detailed local maps, glossary and suggested itineraries. (IDA586, $17.95)
	The Moor's Last Sigh • Salman Rushdie • LITERATURE • A sweeping family epic that tackles many of the most complex aspects about Indian culture. In his characteristically rich prose, Rushdie tells the history of India, set among the spice traders of Cochin. (IDA89, $16.00)
	Mr Sampath -- The Printer of Malgudi, The Financial Expert, Waiting for the Mahatma • R. K. Narayan • LITERATURE • An Everyman's Library edition of three novels written after India's independence -- including the comic tale, Narayan's funniest, of the printer of Malgudi, whose glamorous new job as screenwriter goes to his head. (IDA336, $25.00)
	Mr. Sampath, The Printer of Malgudi • R. K. Narayan • LITERATURE • A handsome edition of one of Narayan's funniest tales, which features Mr. Sampath, the equanimious printer of a failing local newspaper. When the paper folds, Mr. Sampath finds his editor a new job as a scriptwriter for the movies, and hilarious hijinks ensue. (IDA182, $12.00)
	Much Maligned Monsters: A History of European Reactions to Indian Art • Partha Mitter • HISTORY • Mitter presents a fascinating history of Indian art and a parallel history of its fascinated European spectators, ranging from the early days of Asian exploration up through the twentieth century. (IDA285, $30.00)
	The Mughal Empire • John F. Richards • HISTORY • An admirably concise, scholarly history of the Mughal Empire (1526-1720) from early conquests through expansion and decline. Organized chronologically, the book includes chapters on both Jahangir and his son, creator of the Taj Mahal, Shah Jahan. (IDA210, $38.99)
	My Bombay Kitchen, Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking • Niloufer Ichaporia King • Alice Waters • FOOD • A detailed guide to the culinary traditions of the Parsi population of India features 165 tempting recipes that capture one of India's most colorful regional cuisines and offers a personal overview of the ideas, tastes, ingredients, and cooking techniques of Parsi cuisine. (IDA520, $29.95)
	My Family and Other Saints • Kirin Narayan • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Narayan's engaging and quirky memoir portrays the Western craze for Eastern mysticism and her own struggle to sort through her bicultural Bombay childhood. (IDA526, $15.00)
	The Namesake • Jhumpa Lahiri • LITERATURE • An intricate and beautifully told tale, Lahiri follows the Ganguli family as they leave Calcutta and settle in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Now a feature film, directed by Mira Nair. (IDA292, $14.95)
	National Geographic India • Louise Nicholson • GUIDEBOOK • Veteran guidebook author Louise Nicholson teamed up with National Geographic photographers for this profusely illustrated travel guide. (IDA208, $27.95)
	A New History of India • Stanley Wolpert • HISTORY • This classic history of India has been the leader in its field for years. Wolpert writes clearly, insightfully, and sometimes provocatively about the 4,000 years of India's complex history. An excellent introduction. (IDA225, $47.95)
	News from Tartary • Peter Fleming • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Fleming's rousing account of a 3,500-mile jaunt from Peking to Sinkiang and on to India, a classic of imperial British wit and style. (CAS46, $18.95)
	Nine Lives, In Search of the Sacred in Modern India • William Dalrymple • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • COMING IN JUNE • Dalrymple, follows the lives of nine remarkable people in these contemporary tales of the transformation of religious life in South Asia. (IDA587, $26.95)
	Of Tigers and Men • Richard Ives • NATURAL HISTORY • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE • A haunting, beautifully written tale of a man's quest to encounter tigers in the wild, and to understand the meaning of the threat of the tiger's extinction. Ives visits the forests of India, Thailand, and Sumatra. (IDA30, $12.50)
	On a Shoestring to Coorg: An Experience of Southern India • Dervla Murphy • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • This tough Irish grandmother has made travel something of a cottage industry. Here's her first venture outside Europe, an insightful tale of her wanderings by bus and on foot through the mountainous province of Coorg in 1976. (IDA29, $27.95)
	Once the Buddha Was a Monkey, Arya Sura's Jatakamala • Arya Sura • Peter Khoroche • Wendy Doniger • RELIGION • These 34 entertaining, instructive tales, not only illustrate Buddhist virtue and mischief but also depict life in the courts and countryside of ancient India. (IDA357, $24.00)
	The Painter of Signs • R. K. Narayan • LITERATURE • Narayan's tale about Raman, a simple, pious sign painter who is deeply set in his work and routine -- until a spirited young free-thinker named Daisy arrives to bring birth control to the village. (IDA341, $13.00)
	The Palace of Illusions • Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni • LITERATURE • Divakaruni's re-imagining of the Mahabharat -- as told through the eyes of princess Panchaali. (IDA401, $23.95)
	A Passage to India • E.M. Forster • LITERATURE • Forster's enduring masterpiece of the clash between Indian and British culture gives gripping insights into British imperial attitudes and Indian colonial responses. (IDA26, $14.00)
	A Passage to India • E.M. Forster • (IDA67, $23.95)
	The Penguin Gandhi Reader • Mohandas K. Gandhi • Rudrangshu Mukherjee • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A short selection of writings from Gandhi. (IDA234, $15.00)
	A Photographic Guide to the Birds of India • B. Grewal • Bill Harvey • Otto Pfister • FIELD GUIDE • A comprehensive photographic guide to the subcontinent. (IDA215, $35.00)
	A Photographic Guide to the Birds of India and Nepal • B. Grewal • FIELD GUIDE • A slim pocket guide to 252 of the most conspicuous birds of India and Nepal. (IDA46, $15.95)
	Pilgrimage to India, A Woman Revisits Her Homeland • Pramila Jayapal • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • In this well-observed memoir, an Indian woman returns to the homeland she has left, in search of a better understanding of her Indian heritage and what that means to a woman raised in the Western world. (IDA260, $14.95)
	Pilgrimage, Past and Present in the World Religions • Simon Coleman • John Elsner • RELIGION • An illustrated survey, organized thematically, of Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Indian and Buddhist pilgrimages and sacred travel. (REL07, $29.50)
	Planet India, How the Fastest Growing Democracy Is Transforming America and the World • Mira Kamdar • REFERENCE • (IDA390, $15.00)
	The Proudest Day, India's Long Road to Independence • Anthony Reed • David Fisher • HISTORY • A popular, lively history of the fall of the Raj. (IDA230, $17.50)
	Queen Of Dreams • Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni • LITERATURE • Rakhi, a young artist and divorced mother living in Berkeley, California, finds herself caught between the turmoil of life in America in the wake of September 11th and the India of her mother, a dream-teller gifted with the ability to share and interpret the dreams of others. (IDA405, $13.95)
	The Raj Quartet: The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion • Paul Scott • LITERATURE • The first two volumes in Scott's absorbing quartet set in British India during its final years. (IDA361, $32.50)
	The Raj Quartet: The Towers of Silence, A Division of the Spoils • Paul Scott • LITERATURE • The first two volumes in Scott's absorbing quartet set in British India during its final years. (IDA360, $37.50)
	Raj, The Making and Unmaking of British India • Lawrence James • HISTORY • An anecdotal, engrossing mostly military history of the East India Company. (IDA87, $24.99)
	The Ramayana • Ramesh Menon • LITERATURE • The great Indian epic rendered in modern prose (IDA88, $40.00)
	The Ramayana, A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic • R. K. Narayan • LITERATURE • Novelist Narayan's translation of the ancient Hindu epic of heroism, love and fate. (IDA311, $14.00)
	Ramayana, Divine Loophole • Sanjay Patel • RELIGION • Pixar animator Sanjay Patel uses whimsical illustrations to retell the beloved epic from Hindu mythology. Over 100 colorful full-spread illustrations bring the adventures of Rama to life as he endeavors to rescue his wife Sita from the demon king. (IDA595, $29.95)
	Reporting the Raj: The British Press and India, c. 1880-1922 • Chandrika Kaul • HISTORY • Kaul reveals the manipulative control of the British over the press during their occupation of India at the turn of the 20th century. Between World War I and Gandhi, the Raj underwent massive transformations that were misreported and falsified by the dominating British Empire. (IDA334, $30.00)
	The Rig Veda • Wendy Doniger • RELIGION • Doniger's choice selection of 108 Sanskrit hymns (1200-900 B.C.E.), deftly translated and with notes. The earliest of the four surviving vedas, these hyms are a foundation of Hindu mythology and culture. (IDA355, $15.00)
	The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760 (Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies, No 17) • Richard M. Eaton • RELIGION • Eaton provides a rich, scholarly account of why eastern Bengal (modern Bangladesh) became heavily Islamicized, wheras western Bengal did not. Examines the movement of the linguistic, agrarian and cultural frontiers of Bengal. (IDA169, $26.95)
	River Dog, A Journey Down the Brahmaputra • Mark Shand • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Shand's touching, eloquent and entertaining chronicle of a journey from Tibet to the Bay of Bengal on the mighty Brahmaputra -- in the company of his Indian hunting dog Bhaiti. (IDA256, $16.95)
	A River Sutra • Gita Mehta • LITERATURE • A civil servant moves to the banks of India's holy Narmada river. (IDA43, $14.95)
	Road Guide to Calcutta • Variety Book Depot • (IDA154, $5.95)
	The Romantics • Pankaj Mishra • LITERATURE • The story of a Brahman youth who travels to the holy city of Benares and there falls in with a motley crew of westerners enamored of India. (IDA143, $13.95)
	The Root and the Flower • L.H. Myers • Penelope Fitzgerald • LITERATURE • A trilogy of historical novels about India in the time of the Mughals -- first published separately in the 1930s and now back in print as a single volume. (IDA191, $16.95)
	Rough Guide Bollywood Gold Music • Various Artists • MUSIC • This entertaining guide showcases the leading singers and revisits some of the most glamorous films of this hugely successful genre. (IDA545, $14.98)
	Rough Guide Goa • Davi Abram • GUIDEBOOK • This practical guide in the excellent British series includes a good historical and cultural overview. (IDA362, $20.99)
	Rough Guide Kerala • David Abram • GUIDEBOOK • This practical guide in the excellent British series includes a good historical and cultural overview. (IDA364, $20.99)
	Rough Guide Music India • Various Artists • MUSIC • A collection of Indian music that is as colorful and varied as the land itself. Features Bollywood themes, regional music, and the beautifully mesmerizing melodies of traditional Indian folk. (IDA338, $14.95)
	Rough Guide Rajasthan, Delhi & Agra • • Daniel Jacobs • GUIDEBOOK • This practical guide in the excellent British series includes a good historical and cultural overview. (IDA363, $23.99)
	Rough Guide South India • Rough Guide • GUIDEBOOK • This comprehensive guide balances an authoritative, succinct overview of history and culture with a superbly detailed roundup of attractions. (IDA93, $23.99)
	Rough Guides India 25 Ultimate Experiences • Rough Guides • GUIDEBOOK • Subtitled Make the Most of Your Time on Earth, these colorful pocket guides, 25 in all, published in celebration of the 25th anniversary of Rough Guides, celebrate remarkable, not-to-be-missed things to do and places to go, certain to inspire. (IDA369, $5.99)
	The Royal Palaces of India • George Michell • Antonio Martinelli • ART & ARCHITECTURE • OUT OF PRINT • An architectural survey of Hindu and Muslim fortresses and royal residences from the 12th century to the days of British colonial rule -- well-informed, comprehensive and handsomely illustrated with 250 color photographs. (IDA74, $39.95)
	Rude Awakenings, Two Englishmen on Foot in Buddhism's Holy Land • Ajahn Sucitto • Nick Scott • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • An account, told in alternativng chapters, of a six-month pilgrimage across the Ganges plain to the places where Siddhattha Gotama (Buddha) lived, taught, sat and walked in India and Nepal. (IDA312, $16.95)
	Running in the Family • Michael Ondaatje • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Award-winning author Ondaatje returns to his native Sri Lanka in this hypnotic travelogue. His lovingly-traced family memoirs are interspersed with poetry and ruminations on the island's post-colonial history. (SRL04, $14.95)
	Sacred Games • Vikram Chandra • LITERATURE • The much-heralded novel set in the underworld of Mumbai. (IDA344, $27.95)
	Salaam Bombay • Shafiq Syed • HISTORY • Shot exclusively in the slums, with a largely local cast, this portrayal of Bombay's criminal underworld won the Camera d'Or at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1989. (IDA561, $14.98)
	Say It in Hindi • Veena T. Oldenburg • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A pocket phrasebook. (IDA81, $5.95)
	Scoop-Wallah, Life on a Delhi Daily • Justine Hardy • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • A memoir of life in Delhi as a newspaper reporter. (IDA127, $18.00)
	The Seeker • Sudhir Kakar • LITERATURE • Set in 1925, against the backdrop of India's struggle for independence, this historical novel recreates the relationship between an upper-class British woman, Madeline Slade, and Mahatma Gandhi. (IDA376, $14.00)
	The Shadow Lines • Amitav Ghosh • LITERATURE • Set in Calcutta in the 1960s, Ghosh's novel follows two families, one English, one Bengali, as their paths intertwine in tragic and comic ways. (IDA513, $14.00)
	Shadow of the Bear, Travels in Their Vanishing Country • Brian Payton • NATURAL HISTORY • (NAT100, $25.95)
	Shadow Princess • Indu Sundaresan • LITERATURE • COMING IN MARCH • Princess Jahanara's story, replete with sibling rivalries, unfulfilled love and her handling her father's grief, is set against the construction of her mother's tomb, the Taj Mahal, in this third installment in the bestselling Taj Mahal trilogy. (IDA596, $25.99)
	Shalimar the Clown • Salman Rushdie • LITERATURE • Rushdie's sprawling novel overflows with allusions, ideas, characters and commentary. As told through the life of Shalimar, it concerns the fate of Kashmir, Hindu and Muslim animosity, adultery and contemporary Los Angeles. (IDA270, $14.95)
	Shiva's Fire • Suzanne Fisher Staples • LITERATURE • YOUNG ADULTS • A young adult novel set in southern India and steeped in Hindu custom, culture and religious belief. Parvati, the appealing 12-year-old heroine, is a classical dancer so accomplished that whe suspects that Shiva, as god of the dance, has chosen her to serve him. (IDA200, $6.99)
	The Siege of Krishnapur • J.G. Farrell • LITERATURE • Farrell evokes the folly and hubris of empire in this splendidly detailed Booker Prize-winning tale, set during the bloody revolt of 1857 that set Indian military recruits against the Raj. (IDA240, $15.95)
	The Sikhs • Patwant Singh • RELIGION • The story of a people for the general reader. (IDA178, $19.00)
	A Silence of Splendor • Indu Sundaresan • LITERATURE • (IDA300, $25.00)
	The Silk Road Journey with Xuanzang • Sally Wriggins • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • A nicely illustrated account of an extraordinary, 16-year trek from Xi'an to India by way of Central Asia in search of the origins of Buddhism by Xuan-Zang, the famous 7th-century Chinese monk. (ASA31, $25.00)
	Simon Winchester's Calcutta • Simon Winchester • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Travel essays and a history of the city by Simon Winchester married with excerpts by literary giants, both foreign and Indian. Winchester was based in Calcutta in the 1970s. (IDA254, $14.99)
	Six Days In Marapore • Paul Scott • LITERATURE • A vivid novel of British expatriates in India on the eve of Independence, by the author of the Raj Quartet. Originally published in 1953. (IDA262, $15.00)
	Six Suspects • Vikas Swarup • (IDA585, $24.99)
	Snakes and Ladders, Glimpses of Modern India • Gita Mehta • Essays on contemporary India, culture, politics and personalities, by the profilic writer and thinker. (IDA68, $13.95)
	A Social History of the Deccan, 1300-1761, Eight Indian Lives • Richard M. Eaton • HISTORY • In this fascinating account of one of the least known parts of South Asia, Richard Eaton recounts the history of the Deccan plateau in southern India from the fourteenth century to the rise of European colonialism. (IDA555, $35.99)
	Sources of Indian Tradition, From the Beginning to 1800 • Ainsl Embree • HISTORY • A serious introduction to Indian culture, including good translations of original documents. (IDA512, $35.00)
	Sources of Indian Tradition, Modern India and Pakistan • Ainsl Embree • HISTORY • The second volume of this insightful introduction to Indian schools of thought. (IDA511, $110.50)
	South Asia • Sumit Ganguly • HISTORY • A scholarly history of modern South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. (IDA308, $19.00)
	South Southeast • Steve McCurry • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A remarkable portfolio of striking photographs taken in and around Afghanistan, Burma, India, Pakistan and other sites in South and Southeast Asia over a long career. Saturated with color, light and evocative of daily life. (ASA34, $59.95)
	Spell of the Tiger, The Man-eaters of Sundarbans • Sy Montgomery • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Montgomery weaves her travels with the Sundarbans with local legends, religion and the natural history of the Bay of Bengal, home to the largest population of tigers on Earth. (IDA524, $16.95)
	Stones of Empire, The Buildings of the Raj • Jan Morris • Simon Winchester • HISTORY • A new edition of Jan Morris' appreciative social history of Anglo-Indian architecture with a new forward by Simon Winchester. With a fine eye, Morris considers the whole range of Anglo-Indian buildings in this probing account. (IDA261, $19.95)
	The Story of Asia's Lions • Divyabhanusinh Chavda • NATURAL HISTORY • Chavda, a member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and a Trustee of the World Wide Fund for Nature, documents the interaction between lions and humans from earliest historical records to present day, also examining current conservation efforts. (ASA61, $49.00)
	Story-Wallah, Short Fiction from South Asian Writers • Shyam Selvadurai • ANTHOLOGY • This fine anthology samples short fiction from South Asian authors like Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje and Jhumpa Lahiri. The settings range from Australia to colonial Trinidad and Sri Lanka. (ASA43, $14.00)
	Street Graphics India • Barry Dawson • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • An excellent overview of the vibrant, ever-changing culture of modern, commercial India. (IDA122, $19.95)
	Such a Long Journey • Sturla Gunnarsson • HISTORY • It's 1971 in Bombay, and India is on the verge of war. Gustad Noble finds his modest life unraveling when he agrees to do a clandestine favor for an old friend in this tragic drama and wry meditation on enduring hope. (IDA560, $24.99)
	A Suitable Boy • Vikram Seth • LITERATURE • A modern classic set in Calcutta, Delhi and other northern India cities after Independence, bursting with history, character, and politics. In this outstanding epic novel, Seth displays his cultural sensitivity, historical insight, and poetic creativity. (IDA27, $21.99)
	Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher • R. K. Narayan • LITERATURE • Four early novels in an omnibus Everyman's edition. Narayan introduces his beloved Malgudi in Swami and Friends -- in which Swaminathan's excitement about his country's initial stirrings for independence competes with his ardor for cricket and all other things British. (IDA337, $27.00)
	Tales from the Medicine Trail, Tracking Down the Health Secrets of Shamans, Herbalists, Mystics, Yogis, and Other Healers • Christopher Kilham • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • OUT OF PRINT • An account of journeys on the trail of medical herbs and botanicals. (GEN246, $19.95)
	Temptations of the West, How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, And Beyond • Pankaj Mishra • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • The thread that binds these engaging accounts of Panjak's insightful travel through South Asia (Buddhist Tibet, Bollywood, Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, Kashmir, Nepal) is the confrontation of traditional and modern society. (ASA51, $16.00)
	Think India, The Rise of the World's Next Great Power and what It Means for Every American • Vinay Rai • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Vinay's account highlight's the U.S. role in India's transformation into an economic powerhosue. (IDA544, $16.00)
	This is India • Shobita Punja • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • An oversize illustrated tribute to India. (IDA97, $39.95)
	The Tiger Ladies, A Memoir of Kashmir • Sudha Koul • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Koul interweaves the story of her Kashmiri family -- and especially of its women -- with tales of gods and goddesses, myths and cultural history, paying plenty of attention to the pleasures of food, fine textiles, and the life of the mind. (IDA207, $15.00)
	Tiger, Elephant, and Cellphone, India the Emerging 21-st Century Power • Shashi Tharoor • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Tharoor chronicles India's transformation over the last 25 years in these engaging essays. (IDA386, $27.50)
	Tiger, The Ultimate Guide • Valmik Thapar • NATURAL HISTORY • This lavish tribute features color photographs, examples of art over the ages and engaging essays by tiger wallahs including Thapar, who has spent 30 years observing tigers in the wild. (IDA246, $39.95)
	Tigers and Tigerwallahs • Geoffrey C. Ward • Jim Corbett • Valmik Thapar • Billy Arjan Singh • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • A omnibus edition of four books by leading tiger conservationsists, from Jim Corbett to Thapar and Ward (IDA247, $29.95)
	Tigers in Red Weather, A Quest to See the Last Wild Tigers • Ruth Padel • NATURAL HISTORY • A lyrical exploration the world of the tiger by the great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin. (IDA331, $26.95)
	Time Out Mumbai & Goa • Iain Ball • GUIDEBOOK • An up-to-date guide on what to do and where to go by the people who publish Time Out Magazine. (IDA343, $19.95)
	The Toss of a Lemon • Padma Viswanathan • LITERATURE • This captivating debut novel, inspired by the author's family history, traces the lives a young widow and her orthodox Brahmin family throughout sixty years of profound social and political upheaval in India. (IDA533, $15.95)
	The Towers of Silence • Paul Scott • LITERATURE • Volume three in Scott's rousing, psychologically complex Raj Quartet. (IDA322, $20.00)
	Traditional Jewelry of India • Oppi Untracht • ART & ARCHITECTURE • The best book in existence on one of India's greatest art forms. (IDA34, $49.95)
	Train to Pakistan, A Novel • Khushwant Singh • LITERATURE • This novel, set during the violence following the 1947 creation of Pakistan by the British, follows the inhabitants of a fictional Punjab village. (IDA264, $14.00)
	A Traveller's History of India • Sinharaja Tammita-Delgoda • HISTORY • A condensed introduction to the themes and events that have shaped India from prehistory to Rajiv Gandhi's rule. (IDA57, $14.95)
	Travels in the East • Donald Richie • Stephen Mansfield • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • The unmatchable, exuberant Richie (who winningly writes "New countries are like new clothes") muses on Egypt, India, Bhutan, Mongolia, China, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Borneo, Thailand, Yap, Korea, and Japan in this kaleidoscope of travel essays. (ASA63, $14.95)
	Travels on My Elephant • Mark Shand • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • A compelling tale of an 800-mile journey across India on the back of a 30-year-old elephant named Tara, this enjoyable tale of adventure features vivid descriptions of the countryside and people. (IDA08, $16.95)
	Trekking in Ladakh • Charlie Loram • GUIDEBOOK • A practical guide to trekking in this remote enclave, this book includes 50 maps, route descriptions, an overview of Leh and a section of color photographs. (HML25, $19.95)
	The Twentieth Wife • Indu Sundaresan • LITERATURE • Sundaresan boldly reimagines the life of the powerful 17th-century Mughal ruler Jahanara in this lush, action-packed historical novel. (IDA307, $15.00)
	Two Wheels in the Dust, From Kathmandu to Kandy • Anne Mustoe • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • This personable account from English matron Mustoe mixes tales of Indian travel with those from the Ramayana as she journeys from Nepal to Sri Lanka. (IDA249, $14.95)
	Ultimate Journey, Retracing the Path of an Ancient Buddhist Monk Who Crossed Asia in Search of Enlightenment • Richard Bernstein • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • In this journey of self-discovery, Bernstein travels across Central Asia from China to India, loosely in the footsteps of the seventh-century Buddhist monk Hsuan Tang. An engaging, informative account of travels. (CAS64, $14.00)
	Understanding Contemporary India • Sumit Ganguly • Niel Devotta • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Intended as an undergraduate text, this survey of Indian life, culture, social issues, and political challenges, is also a rewarding contemporary reader for the traveler. (IDA345, $24.50)
	Untouchable • Mulk Raj Anand • E. M. Forster • LITERATURE • Referred to by some as his nation's answer to Charles Dickens, the author tackles India's caste system with urgency and conviction. (IDA180, $13.00)
	Untouchables, My Family's Triumphant Escape from India's Caste System • Narendra Jadhav • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A bestseller in India, the Untouchables is an inspiring tale of defying prejudice and gaining an education in the slums of Mumbai. (IDA330, $24.95)
	The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature • Amit Chaudhuri • LITERATURE • An introduction to Indian fiction and poetry since 1850, including works both in translation and written originally in English. The authors span a century and a half of Indian letters, from Tagore and Bankim Chandra Chatterjee to Rushdie and Anita Desai. (IDA218, $15.00)
	Vishnu's Crowded Temple, India Since the Great Rebellion • Maria Misra • HISTORY • Maria Misra looks at the tangle of caste and religious identity in modern democratic India in this lively modern history, one of several timed to coincide with the 60th anniversary of India's independence. (IDA550, $35.00)
	West Bengal State Map • MapLink • Detailed map of the Indian State of West Bengal, at a scale of 1:1,100,000. (IDA156, $6.95)
	White Mughals • William Dalrymple • HISTORY • A portrayal of the experiences of "white mughals," 18th- and 19th-century British colonialists who adopted traditional Indian lifestyles and took Indian women as their brides. (IDA233, $18.00)
	Why Some Like it Hot: Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity • Gary Paul Nabhan • FOOD • Part science, part anthropology, this is a study of food and why we eat what we eat. (GEN320, $25.00)
	The Wisdom of the Buddha • Jean Boisselier • RELIGION • A pocket-size primer of Buddhism, this book is an illustrated history of the sixth-century Indian prince and his quest for enlightenment. With 207 illustrations, 160 in full color. (IDA55, $12.95)
	A Woman's Asia • Marybeth Bond • ANTHOLOGY • These thirty-five personal, often hilarious accounts of women's adventures from China to Sri Lanka to Turkey to Bhutan, not only illuminating the everyday, oft-overlooked cultural practices of Asia, but also giving a glimpse into the thoughts and feelings of the female traveller. (ASA49, $17.95)
	Women in a Tribal Community, A Study of Arunachal Pradesh • Kiran Mishra • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • An in-depth look at the ways and rituals of the Nishing community in Arunachal Pradesh. (IDA125, $14.00)
	Women in Modern India • Geraldine Forbes • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A history of the status and roles of women, women's movements, organizations, achievements and work from 19th century reforms through the 1980s. (IDA372, $34.99)
	Women Writing in India, 600 B.C. to the Present • Susie Tharu • ANTHOLOGY • A selection of evocative pieces by Indian women authors. (IDA284, $32.00)
	The Wonder House • Justine Hardy • LITERATURE • (IDA302, $24.00)
	Wonder that Was India • A.L. Basham • HISTORY • First published in 1954, Professor Basham's insightful and well-written survey has long been the standard introduction to the history and culture of India before the arrival of the Muslims. (IDA356, $26.00)
	Wonders of the Indian Wilderness • Erach Bharucha • NATURAL HISTORY • With 2,000 full-color illustrations, this sumptuous celebration of India's biodiversity is visually stunning. A deluxe volume with a slipcase. (IDA527, $185.00)
	World Religions: Eastern Traditions • Willard G. Oxtoby • RELIGION • A clear and insightful introduction to Eastern religions by a team of scholars, covering Hindu, Jain, Sikh, Buddhist and East Asian traditions. Scholarly, but still rewarding for the general reader. (ASA07, $67.95)

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